We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

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.

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

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.

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

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

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.