There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.