When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.