To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

When mind is so easy, body becomes so tranquil and so fearless.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

Participating in Eurovision felt like coming home

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.