The most important things are the hardest to say

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.