If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.

But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

It is no way to live, to wait to love.