After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love.

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

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.