I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

The writer is the person who stays in the room.

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.

A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.