As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

You are the ever-expanding universe to me

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.