Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

About all you can do in life is be who you are.