Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.