Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.