I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.

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.

If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.

Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!

You look like you. Only with the volume turned up.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

Small to greater matters must give way.