Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image - the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America.
For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.
A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.
You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.