Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

Writing is seduction.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

no one dies happy, you can only die well