Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.