People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle in my body singing at the same pitch. Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.

People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’