I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

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

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.