Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.

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

You should not have assault rifles in your home.