"To write is to confront your own fears."
"I think that's what fiction is for, to make sense of the world, to make sense of life."
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
A good novel should be like a bomb, exploding in the reader's mind and leaving a lasting impact.