I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.

You have to do disappointment twice.

You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.