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

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

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

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

To be next to her was to have everything.