plot is character in action.

Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it out.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.