You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing' Except, no, I wouldn't. I'd do the same amount of writing I do now and the rest of the time I'd go stir crazy. If you're waiting for the perfect moment you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.