To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

"I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.