“It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.”

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”

“Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.”

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

“The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.”

“You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.”

“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”