It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, "I'm glad you're reading this book" or "I'm glad you're getting this book" or "Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead."

I am a totally public person.