I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.