Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life, friendship, relationships, sex, and work. Especially work. People love to read about work. God knows why, but they do.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

I never met a writer who wasn't lazy.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.