My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?