Mothers aren't allowed to have favorite children!

I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.

I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.