The ideal companion in bed is a good book.
Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
Your past comes with you no matter where you go.
AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.
The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.
But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all