the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.