You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.