I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.