Nationality isn't soul.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.