In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Weird love's better than no love at all.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.

The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.