The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.