Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.