I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation.

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.

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God