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.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

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

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.