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

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.