We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.

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