It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.