Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.