People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.