“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”

“If you turned in a paper with writing on it, you were guaranteed a hook from Jake Epping of the LHS English Department, and if the writing was organized into actual paragraphs, you got at least a B-minus.”

“When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.”

“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”

“Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.”

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”