Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

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.

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

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.