“A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.”

“Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no idea where the top of the mountain was in the first place.”

“Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.”

“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

“The falling away of things we carry around with us, twilight and chimney smoke.”

“Give me a reason, to end this discussion, to break with tradition, to fall and divide. So let's not get carried, away with the process, of healing relations, I don't want to waste your time!”