For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.