Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

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