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

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.

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.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Be the positive impact on someone’s life.

I am not afraid of the pen or the scaffold or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.

According to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I don't know if this is what the IDF says to the media.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.