Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

I can see your dirtypillows.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’.