After a while you learn that everything stops.

Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

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

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