I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

There's hope around the corner.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.