"to be an intellectual, to be a writer, it to wear a sign on your back saying I'm an enemy of the state."

"I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards."

"I write to explore. I write to find out what I think. I write to discover what I believe."

"I'm a very strange person. I know that. But I'm also a very honest person."

"Fake it till you make it. Act confident, even if you're not. Eventually, you'll become confident."