Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Let me not fear defeat or death, Let me not fear being forgotten, Let my defiance sustain my soul, Let it remain with me ever after.Poem: Prayer to the God of Rebellion, in ‘Chameleon Lights

God is in the details.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

You might be a redneck if you can amuse yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter.

Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.