When you are expending much energy on someone else's demise, it's like you weaken your psychic immune system.

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.

I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

To believe you're being psychically attacked gives you an understanding of your illness that no Western doctor can provide; this can be reassuring when you've exhausted the Western doctor tool kit, and the doctors are sending you to acupuncturists for pain relief.