If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual