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.

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

You should not have assault rifles in your home.