Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.