I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

All magic comes with a price. A price that is never revealed until after the damage has been done.

Even a deep chick like me needed to have a shallow spot somewhere inside.

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.

There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

When I'm all alone and I'm by myself, little Peter keeps me company.

I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.