People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.