Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Everything that is,casts a shadow

You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.

You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you... it's like you're betraying yourself.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.