"I never had a bad time in the library. I never had a bad time in a bookstore."

"The novel is a dream you can hold in your hand."

"Sometimes when you're writing, you're not writing, you're just staring at the wall. And that's okay."

"It's a good idea to remember that whenever you are at any point in time, you are at a point in time, and you're not at the end of time."

"I was going to have a gravestone that said not in my lifetime. Right, but uh somebody sent me a t-shirt at the end of last year that said 'Now I can die in peace.' That's very nice, I thought was real…"