I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

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 everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

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

Life doesn't retreat.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.