You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up..

Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how th….

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life..

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books..

We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, at….

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more r….

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there ….

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history..

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky a….

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me….

I always told my dad I'd play professional football..

The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marria….

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever..

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people..

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't..

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way..

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're ….

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming..