There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.