An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.