No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.

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.

I have to return some videotapes

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.