One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror

The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

Life is fundamentally up for grabs