It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

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.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.