My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.