"Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write."

"You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear."

"One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library."

"I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way."

"I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list."

"I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players."

"There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible."

"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide."