Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.