When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

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.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.