We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

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

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

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