Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

I'm kind of a distractible guy.

I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.