Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've loved best, what scenes have stayed with them, what connections they've felt between my characters' lives and theirs.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.