It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

Weird love's better than no love at all.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.