You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.

Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, "Hi, do you have any kids?" and then, "Why not, don't you like kids?" "I like kids," I will explain. "I like kids very much." And when I almost run over them with my car, in my driveway, I will feel many different things.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.