Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.