You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.