I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

It's one of my favorite times of day. I'll have an array of notes, things that I want to think about. Something will start to take shape, and I'll play around with it. It's not usually an intense time. It's sort of a playful time. But it's when some really good thoughts arise.

I'm German, after all.

I'm structured with time.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.