No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.