The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

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

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.