The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.