One cannot always marry the person one loves.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.