We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

I think we're in a 1970s-level moment of social transition and they're always full of upheaval. As violent and deranged as we can be to each other and to other species, we've got nothing on tsunamis, hurricanes or tornadoes.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.