Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.