God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.