I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

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

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.