Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets.

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

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.