Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.