I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

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.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.

People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.

You do not mess with the special investigators.