We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.