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.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Hell is other people's fantasies.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.