I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

compromise is the work of mature people.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

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