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

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.

Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.