Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.