There's a lot of intelligence in the hands. When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.
Longing on a large scale makes history.
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.
There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.