Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

Good writers touch life often.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.