"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys. It's got to have the right springiness. I tend to find the built-in keys very unsatisfying, the keys are low-profile and don't really do anything - I want it to feel like I'm typing.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.