Chevy Stevens

I try to only read light things when I'm working on my books, and in the evenings I watch a lot of mindless TV. I have to break up the 'dark,' or I wouldn't be a very happy person.

Each day when I'm walking with my dog through the damp forest, I'm thinking about the atmosphere, and it often works its way into my next scene somehow.

Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.