One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succu…

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he d…