I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

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.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.