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

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

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

I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

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.