Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.

The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship