A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.