“If you approach any psychic with any sort of scepticism you’ll see through pretty much all of it unless they happen to get lucky.”

“Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.”

“Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.”

“You should approach each book -- you should approach life -- with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.”

“When you know how, any time, to get to the place where it's all sort of funny, you've mastered GTD.”

“I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love. I sell you no phony forgiveness, I'm a desperate man—but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate. So I approach it through division. So I denounce and I defend and I hate and I love.”

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

“I don’t see any moral difference between a suicide bomber and somebody in a F-16 fighter jet who fires a missile into an apartment complex and then kills 10 or 15 little girls and boys. I don’t see much difference there. In fact, I think the pilot is a greater offender, you know, he’s getting medals, while the suicide bomber is sacrificing his life for what he believes in. But I don’t agree with either approach. I’m absolutely opposed to any sort of terrorism. (…) But if you call Hezbollah a terrorist organization, then you must call Israel a terrorist organization.”

“I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.”

“Regret in any form is pointless, unless it teaches us to be wise. To never let such foolishness happen again.”