I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers.

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?