I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

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