I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience shapes what you write and what you don't write.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

It was a terrible thing, to love and not know whether you were loved in return, it led to the worst sensations--jealousy, rage, self-loathing--to all these lesser states.

I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Oh my God, cheese burn!

Of course, I do everything for money.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.