God made the integers

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

You are the biggest threat to your emotional and physical health if you don't set aside time for relaxation, joy, and personal growth.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.