As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]

There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.

I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.