When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.

Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]

It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.