I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

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.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

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

Writers will happen in the best of families.

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.