It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

she thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

And the only thing I knew how to do was to hold on as tightly as possible and count every single second until I reached the last one. The one I dreaded most.Sudden, violent, final.The end.

...what does the future look like?...'A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It's a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

We’ve got to give people room to have a bad day.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

End times aren't supposed to be very pretty.

If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.