...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

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.

I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this way. I think about the ruin, devastation and wreckage I have caused to myself and to others. I think about self-hatred and self-loathing. I think about how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.