Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

What can't be cured must be endured.

With death comes honesty.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

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 write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.