I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world.

- T.C. Boyle

I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are off, the phones are off, and for this hour,…

- T.C. Boyle

I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some…

- T.C. Boyle

I'm extremely worried. I'm worried about the survival of our species, worried about what we're doing, worried about being Americans, worried about de…

- T.C. Boyle

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

- T.C. Boyle

There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if the…

- T.C. Boyle

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

- T.C. Boyle

The hardest part is always the middle of anything because at that point, on some unconscious level, you have to figure out what it's about and why yo…

- T.C. Boyle

I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused.

- T.C. Boyle