Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.