Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.