I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?