A novel is a performance you have to plan.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.