All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

All we have is the story we tell.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy for literary fiction to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.