When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

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.

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

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

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

Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with the people you'd left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. Not because you didn't love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.