From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

I could not think without writing.

Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.

They're not bullying you because of you,they're bullying you because of how they are

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.