The more I got to knew about Paganism the more Pagan I became, so to say, but I didn't really know enough until after the creation of Burzum.
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully
Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
Why should my love be powerless to help another?
I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.
Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.