"The only thing that matters is the story."

"To be a writer is to be a scavenger."

"We are not always what we seem, and a good trick of the mind is to convince yourself that you are what you wish to be."

"Nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from."

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."