Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.

Everybody believes in chance.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.