Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.