Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world.

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

Love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.