Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

Attention and focus are essential skills for writers in a noise-filled world.

To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.

Flowers are so inconsistent!

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

It’s amazing how a bed feels more like a home than any other part of a house.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.