Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.