A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.

We have not the time to take our time.