I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.