I don’t know where everything is going, but I’m pretty confident that people like books – the objects. So I’m going to go on that -they’re not going to disappear.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation.” In reference to teenager Heather in “Carry The One

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny,” as he said “so tiny” he bent over until his forehead...

I’m never sure who I’m writing for, or who’s reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.