I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

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.

I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people.

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

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

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.