Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.