When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers Chucky.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves.

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

I'm a little territorial and defensive.

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.