I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

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.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.