Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

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

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

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

I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.