Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.

While they're still alive, people can become ghosts.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.