Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.

I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.