I don't feel very revengeful in life at all.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.