Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

Shooting is my principal pastime.

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.