Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.

Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.