Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.