There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

The gun bounced so much in her shaky grasp that if she did fire, he’d likely be the one to catch the bullet.

Conquer evil with good deeds.

A Moment, however small, defines an expression.

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.