My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Fire the doubters out of your life.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.