The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely.

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

Sometimes you’ve just got to let them scream, right?

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

Ah, how hard it was, even half-delirious or asleep, to conceive of something new!