It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.
Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.