Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.