By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up at your desk - although frankly, I don't have a desk, I write in bed - you're supposed to show up at your bed and produce work. I think it's a little bit like work. I like to have fun with it, do things like make silly book trailers. I don't want to take this too seriously.

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.

Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.