The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.

All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

Whoever loves God, pray for purity.

For in Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, it's always high noon and what glows is fuchsia and what's dead is dead and no feather-dusters.

Ours was such a delicious risk.My being abruptly and altogetherEcstatic and be-stilled.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.

It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam... it just makes you like everybody else.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.