It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

A guy who hates his job isn't going to be too charming at home.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

Well, that's an evil smile.

Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.

If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.