Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 24, 1951
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But ….
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction..
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it..
If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out..
Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is call….
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today..
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through….
Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of..
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be..
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves..
The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not..
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like ….
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence..
The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a s….
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me….
The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third..
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their….
You who speak languages, you are such liars..
He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river..
I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the….
So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important….