I don't consider genre while writing.

I have control of my own style.

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.

I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.

I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.

If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.