In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.