Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the whole world is a crime scene: People eat space with their bodies; they are rain decayers; the wind is slaughtered when they move. A retaliation is probably coming. Should a person cease to move, she would cease to kill the sky, and the world might begin to recover.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.