I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.

The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.