The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.