Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.