Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

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

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.