Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.