Morning always comes.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

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

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.