What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.

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.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.

Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

I seek the substantial in life.

At the darkest moment comes the light.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

I know who I am, I know what I believe, that's all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.