Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.