We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the ones that never heal and that define who we are.

In the world of cryptography, the only secure system is the one that is never connected to any network.