I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

My home is not a place

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

The cat is the beautiful devil.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.