Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

He traveled in order to come home.

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.