Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.

I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.