There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

The older you get the more you live in the past

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.