If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that flaw.

I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

You are thirst and thirst is all I know