You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.