I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

Our purpose as believers is to make impact wherever we find ourselves

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

We teach people how to treat us.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.