As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

You die in the middle of your life.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.R.