People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

Half my life is an act of revision.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives

I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.