I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

She didn't know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save, spend and all the time George with his own counter had found her a way out.

"No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.

I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache.