Happy the man with a book-length grievance - and rare. Each of these books contains one possible magazine article surrounded by more padding than an offensive lineman: every little indignity that ever happened to them, and every two-bit feud, magnified to a Horrible Example to justify a larger printing.

The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.

The odds on any intelligent person having an unhappy childhood are better than fair, and the odds on a sad ending are practically off the board.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expre…

Why Baroque? Because it is set in the Baroque, and it IS baroque. Why Cycle? Because I am trying to avoid the T-word ('trilogy'). In my mind this work is somet…

When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the market's loaded... you don't know which one to take.