Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.