If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.