When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

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.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere, but you're in costume, and you're not really fooling anybody. You're the guy in costume, and everybody's supposed to forget that and go along with you. Obviously, it can work, it works all the time - well, it doesn't always work. Still, no matter what, I'm always looking at the form and addressing it, not ignoring it.

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.