Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

Half my life is an act of revision.