The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and go to sleep.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

And I have learned now to live with it, learned when to expect it, how to outwit it, even how to regard it, when it does come, as more friend than lodger. We have reached a certain understanding, my migraine and I.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.