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

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

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

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.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

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

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