Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.