The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed