"I'm a very complex person. I have a lot of contradictions. And I think that's what makes me interesting."

"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 think I once experienced a track in which the savior returned. but I experienced it just briefly. I am not there now I'm not sure I ever was certainly I may never be again I grieve for that loss..."

"He described feeling as though he had been transported to a “gray world” that differed from our own, where the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, and even the people were gray."

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a guy who writes a lot of books."