"The only way to write is to write. There's no other way. You just have to sit down and do it."

"the kingdom were it established here would not be visible to those outside it i offer the idea that in more modern terms what is meant that some of us will travel laterally to that better world. and s…"

"I seem to be living in my own novels more and more. I can't figure out why. Am I losing touch with reality? Or is reality actually sliding toward a Phil Dickian type of atmosphere? And if the latter, …"

"I'm a very strange person. I know that. But I'm also a very honest person."

"A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope."