If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.

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.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.