I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

(On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in books and movies.

He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it.

People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.