I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

An elephant funeral makes me weep every time, and so does an ad with a kid leaving home for college.

I'm not despairing of love at all.

Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.