Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.