There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.
You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.
Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.
I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better
Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence
Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses