Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

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

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.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.