No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home, or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.