The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things

Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.