Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.