"I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."

"You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it."

"The choice between two evils is still a choice."

"Every writer is a vampire."

"I'm not interested in writing about happy people. Happy people are boring."