What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.