Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

I can also speak to small woodland creatures, ” he grins at me.

The ecstasy of wrath is not enough for vengeance!

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

I didn't even complete my University Education

The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

I don't want to blame it on not having a father figure in my life, but that has a lot to do with it too.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.