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

I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

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

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

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.