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.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.