I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in my head. It takes a lot of work, writing, writing, and rewriting to get the music exactly the way you want it to be.

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.