But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

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.