I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.

They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.

My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.