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'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.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.