I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

The center of the universe is everywhere.

People keep asking me when I'm going to start singing instead of speaking. I can't sing! I'm rubbish! Why don't they believe me?

I'm good at what I do.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.