My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Strip clubs are great places to meet interesting people you only wanna know for about 40 minutes.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

Do not forget to drink a lot of water to stay feeling good.

Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.

And my girlfriend, she's FAT! How fat? She's so fat she wears two watches-one for each time zone!

I am not here to entertain straight people.