I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.