Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

She would live now, not read.

If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.