Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?