I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

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

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.