Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?