What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.