I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.