"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words make them smaller than they actually are. How can you expect people to bel…"

"Writing is a form of mind control. It's the ultimate control. You can make people think what you want them to think. You can make them feel what you want them to feel."

"Revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done."

"I think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better--and maybe not all that much better, after all."

"The imagination is a powerful tool. It can create worlds, or it can destroy them."