Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.