I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.