I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.