So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.