Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.