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" The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. "

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" The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' "

" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "

" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "

" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "

" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "

" A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

" The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. "

" If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. "

" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "

" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "

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" To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. "

" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "

" Well, I have never, ever Googled myself. "

" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "

" I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. "

" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "

" Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. "

" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "

" Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. "

" Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. "

" The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. "

" Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. "

" The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. "

" Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. "

" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "

" Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. "

" We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. "

" When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. "

" Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. "

" The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. "