He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Daring life, graceful living.

There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.