When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships within my family?" Are they going to change? Is it going to be the kind of deal where you say, "I can't take this! Get me out of here! I can't stand these screaming kids!" The way it turned out was, I was able to change the diapers okay, after I stuck the pin through my fingers a few times. I had a dawning realization that children are not particularly hard to deal with.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

Make-up covers a multitude of sins.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.