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

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

People with good intentions never give up!

I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.

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.

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

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.