My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.