Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

My goal in life is to become an adjective.