"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words make them smaller than they actually are. How can you expect people to bel…"

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

"Some things are just bad. Some things are just evil. Sometimes there's no explanation."

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."

"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better."