I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?