Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.

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 seasons are spectacular.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.

Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.