Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY. And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't suddenly have to drop chilly knowledge straight into his brain.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.

I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!