I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.