You have to be an outsider to write.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

You have to be an outsider to write.

High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

The most beautiful women in the world were African.