The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.