I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not me.
A new car is not going to change your life.
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?
I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.
People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.
I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.
One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.
After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.
The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.