I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.

Mothers aren't allowed to have favorite children!

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

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

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.