Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.

You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all things. It is beautiful today, and tomorrow merely ludicrous.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.