I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
I think there should be more black characters, and more of all kinds of characters, in fiction. Almost all of the main characters in my novel are black. And there are black characters in featured rol...
I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on.Babes, he told her. You're dead.That's one of those aspects, obviously.
I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often...
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality I knew was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and...
I saw her chewing gum, when I was thirteen, and I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
I remember my own childhood vividly . . . I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them.’ Maurice Sendak, in conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker...
I remember Icarus. He flew too close to the sun. In the stories, though, it’s worth it. Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor forever. Better to have flamed i...
I opened the door. Don’t do that, said a green, globby person. You’ll let the space-time continuum in.
I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend… I can pretend that things last. I can pretend t...
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend...
I know, said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. I like your stories. Mine are always too dark.I don’t think so, said October. It’s just that your nights...
I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.
I have always felt, he said, that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats
I have always felt, he said, that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.
I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No.T...
I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or mome...
I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the mone...