You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

Some of us are lucky enough to fall in love once or twice but the luckiest of us are those who find that someone they simply can't live without and have the pleasure of falling in love with them day in and day out for the rest of their lives. Relationships aren't about simply falling in love once and being done with it, they're about loving someone until the end of your days and growing that love endlessly.