Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

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.