It must be hell on a writer who is introverted and doesn't really want to talk to people,

Every one of these books is going to have one really big surprise in it to make people say, 'I didn't realize that,'

Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]

Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of Hell to trace.

I always go for the sex and violence, ... If you can be great, you should talk about love and death. And if you can only be good, you should talk about sex and violence. Those are the things people are perennially interested in.

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.