An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family