Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.