God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

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 can't be careful on a skateboard.

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.