"I'm not a very good housekeeper. My house is always a mess."

"I think a writer's job is to tell the truth. And the truth is not always pretty."

"I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."

"The artist is a servant of the art, not a master of it."

"If you don’t like my ideas, please don’t read my books."