In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are all stories about people kind of falling back in love or struggling with relationships. Even Fight Club was just a big romantic ending.