The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.