I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.