I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

Never, never try to scope the market.