You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.