Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.