Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.