She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.

If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

You cannot starve a man who is feeding on God's promises.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.

If it's music, I love it.

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.