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

You have to be an outsider to write.

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

The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I’ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I’m after.

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

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

The most beautiful women in the world were African.