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.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

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

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.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.