Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
I love the most the students with troubled lives.
So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...