"I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions."

"If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product."

"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."

"With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes."

"I take responsibility for myself and what I do now."

"It is a profound truth that we do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting."

"Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success."