It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.