As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.