For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer.

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.

His suffering was no more real than he was.

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.