Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.