Success and money can really be quite blinding.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North