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.'

A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.

This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.