First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.