Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.