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

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.

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.

The most beautiful women in the world were African.

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

You have to be an outsider to write.