Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.