One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory.

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.