The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.