"Don't ever confuse a good story with a true story."

"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."

"Power is not a thing. It’s a relationship."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"The truth is, I don't know what's going to happen. So I write about what I know."