I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

In these silences something may rise

I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.