I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.