On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

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.

Don't waste your time on life.

You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!

Usually my ideas are small.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.