Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.