Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

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

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.