A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

I'm being uprooted, " Dino said. "You're being transplanted, " Viv replied, "and to a better home.

Failure is our teacher, not the success.

The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.