There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.