I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.