There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.