Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.

I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.

If you have someone falling out of the boat, you'd have to drag the boat up the river and film the same scene ten times, every time, dragging the boat exactly where it was up the river.