People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.