All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

Love is a flame to set the will on fire

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

When I wake up, I'll go through emails on my iPhone - the junk email. At that point, my brain isn't usually awake enough to handle anything more than that.