I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

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

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.