Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

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

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.