Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.