As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.