The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.
Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.
the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.