I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Leadership. Sees the future and knows the past.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

A woman is subject matter enough.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

It's okay in this country to be sexist. It's certainly not okay to be racist.

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.