"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, not only important but right. He was a man of his time, and he had the defects of his time, as well as the virtues."

"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of."

"I write my books for the same reason I eat apples – because I like them."

"I'm not a fan of order. I'm a fan of chaos."

"I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy."