"I don't believe in God, but I'm very interested in religion."

"The world is a cacophony of voices, and it's the writer's job to make sense of it."

"The world is full of people who are very happy to tell you what you should write and how you should write it. And if you listen to them, you’ll never write anything."

"To be a writer is to be an outsider. It is to be someone who stands on the edges of society, looking in, and then reporting what he sees."

"To be a writer is to be a criminal. To be a writer is to be a transgressor. It's to be someone who goes across the line."