There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

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

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.