"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."

"This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."

"My own style is one of not much effort."

"I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion."

"It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too."

"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."