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

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with