Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.