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’.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.