If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.