"I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters."

"I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?"

"I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal."

"I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets."

"I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management."

"Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is."

"I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food."

"If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did."