My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.