The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

- Thomas Mallon

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag…

- Thomas Mallon

American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anythi…

- Thomas Mallon

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

- Thomas Mallon

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

- Thomas Mallon

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something.…

- Thomas Mallon

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

- Thomas Mallon

I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

- Thomas Mallon