If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being "a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society."

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.