The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future..

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it..

I would love to do something with Coldplay..

You have to learn to hallucinate..

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that a….

Live in the precious present..

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles..

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know..

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination..

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find..

What is power without control?.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

I was never trained for anything.

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back..

Learning is the making of meaning..

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis..

I don't like being shouted at..

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing..

The novel remains a very special form for me..