There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.