My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good enough answer for me as a snot-nosed college kid angling for a religious debate, and I still think it's a good way of putting it.

You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.