There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.