Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.