The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.

A person can't change all at once.

I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.