"I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature."

"I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other."

"Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet."

"I don't make decisions based on money."

"Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?"

"I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book."

"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."

"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."