In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

I think people in general think more about their insecurities.

It's a fun product, not a commodity product, so you don't have to worry about them all the time because your sunglasses cost $700,

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.