There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.