Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.

I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.