People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?