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.

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

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

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.