It's really daunting when you have just spent a lot of time on something to think about tossing it out. But once you've started something better that's working right, then it's pretty easy to let the first one go.

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

In some ways I'm very structured.