We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.