People don’t realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.