The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

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

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.