What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.