You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.