There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.

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

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.

...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.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

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.