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.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

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

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

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

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.