My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.

The past is all we know of the future.