All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving.