Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.