Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

Each of our five senses contains an art.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.

I aim to make music for the dancefloor