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.

Life is serious but art is fun!

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.

If you asked me one day, I might say, "Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious." If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, "No."