"It's hard to be a man when you're afraid."

"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."

"The best fiction is often the most honest."

"I think that a writer's job is to tell the truth, even if it's a lie."

"The first duty of a novelist is to entertain. If you don't entertain, then all the deeper stuff is lost."