I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the other thing," what you would say is, "Let's give them all the drugs they want." In a lot of states, something very much like that happened. They lowered the drinking age to eighteen and said, "Get juiced."

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

The past is obdurate.

Pray for rain while digging a well.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.