I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.