Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.

In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.