Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.

I prefer to remain anomalous.