The best defense is a good story.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.