I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.