I was very much a child of the Cold War.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

Writing is a job: you must show up.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.