A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It`s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.