I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

If you have a gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone.

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

Everytime the leaves are changing it's the loneliest time of the year

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

I love my family, they love me. And my little brothers, they're like my sons. I raised them.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.