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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.