At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we...
By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
The turtle couldn't help us.
The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high od...
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take
A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
A man who lies about beer makes enemies
A change is as good as a rest.
Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.
Here's what vampires shouldn't be: pallid detectives that drink Bloody Marys and work only at night; lovelorn southern gentlemen; anorexic teenage girls; boy-toys with big dewy eyes. What should they...
Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.It falls upon her.Love is like dying.
You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.
Words have weight.
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.
People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.