I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.