Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline. You have to get the right way in. Otherwise the material just lies there, and you can't do anything with it.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.