I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.