As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

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'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.