Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

I write because I want to have more than one life.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

I spend about a year between novels

...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.