Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.