Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

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

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

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.

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

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.