There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.