I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

No one ever likes the right person.