To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.