I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

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

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

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.