Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.