Robert Stone

“Everybody's a victim, that's the real story.”

“The world is not a rational place.”

“A lie is a story that someone else has told and you are telling.”

“I think fiction is all about the game of trying to guess what's going on in other people's heads.”

“The only universal language is despair.”

“Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation.”

“I'm interested in the way that the language of religion has been re-appropriated by the paranormal, by fetishists, by people who might be called 'perverts.'”

“I think that evil is a real thing. It's a force in the world.”

“You have to be able to risk your identity for the sake of the story.”

“I think you write what you're afraid of.”

“The world is an illusion, but an illusion that bites.”

“I think there is a certain amount of desperation in all writers. We're all trying to get at something that's ungettable.”

“What happens is that you have a certain penchant for a certain type of behavior, and if you're lucky, you can find a way to make a living at it.”

“I think it is a mistake to think that the Bible is a book of answers. It is a book of questions.”