Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.