He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

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.

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.