Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you`re always involved with collaborators and they don`t always see the work the way you do.

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.