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 don't consider genre while writing.

Purpose is the essence of life

It is the devotee's job to chant God's name. It is God's business to keep count.

God does not pay weekly but he pays at the end.

When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only, then others hardly hear him.

I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

Bacon's on the way." He smiled. "Hey, they like you!" Wrath to Beth after the brother's bow to her.

True love lasts forever.

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.