I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.