I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

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

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.