Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.