Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.