Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

A person can't change all at once.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.