"In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly."

"The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right."

"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

"I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect."

"For know that no one is free, except Zeus."

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

"No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man."

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."