Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

I've been coerced into free will.

I’m busy trying not to look like anything edible.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.