I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life..

everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage..

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past..

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this..

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness..

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book..

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn'….

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring..

I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon ….

Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terr….

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing..

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his mo….

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'.

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And ….

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at….

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders..

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that h….

There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves in ter….

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open..

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, b….

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novel….