I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.