You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

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.