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

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

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

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

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.