Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

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

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

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

You have to be an outsider to write.

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.