Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.