I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.

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

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

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

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.