My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker.

I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.

Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.