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.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

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.