Secrets are dark things. They don’t exist in the light. Theyglow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind-nooks, in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.

What is the difference between a dream and its memory?

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

There are no air conditioners in Hell

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens.

If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.