When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

My own preferred fitness regime is to use my bicycle.

Reading is at the beginning of the social contract.

I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

Being beautiful is all in the attitude, it's about confidence.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month.

Don't be sad and don't give up on your dreams. Dreams will come true one day. There's no person as beautiful as a person who dreams

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.