I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time