If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It’s one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.
If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.
Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
You can’t learn to write that way – by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you’re 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You’ve got to learn how to write!
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed.
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.