Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.