This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

The grace of God makes everything possible.

Today she’s walking down the driveway to get on the school bus. Tomorrow she’s going off to college. Don’t blink.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.