I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.