I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just sort of... it can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it. Eventually I'll retire on some level, eventually no one will want to buy my books or a ticket to see me read, it's inevitable that's going to happe

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.