There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.

As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

Energy spent to worry is a total lose. It is a down payment you’ve made without any return”.

Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

I've known Don Mancini for 22 years. We're dear friends. I know his humor, I know his mind.

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.