I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.