I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.

I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good relationship. Maybe you have to experience the terrible ones to appreciate the good unions!

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.