No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.