I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.