Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.