Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.

You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.