There is much to be said for solitude.

- Douglas Kennedy

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

- Douglas Kennedy

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

- Douglas Kennedy

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histori…

- Douglas Kennedy

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corn…

- Douglas Kennedy

But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold co…

- Douglas Kennedy

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

- Douglas Kennedy

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

- Douglas Kennedy

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather…

- Douglas Kennedy