The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.