If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.