She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.