We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

The truth is in the details.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.