Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.