People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be

The dull pray

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

I want to be done, and actually, go "I had a good run. No regrets. I'm ready to step aside."

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.