Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.