Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

Time is a face on the water.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.