"Dinner: Get a nice salmon filet at the supermarket, not too big. Put some olive oil and lemon juice on it. Wrap it in damp paper towels. Nuke it in the microwave for 3 minutes or so. Eat it. Maybe add…"

"If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, …"

"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"

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

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."