"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."
"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
"When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day."
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something."