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

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.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

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.

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.