When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

You think you have a memory; but it has you!

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.