I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!