The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

When blame has been assigned, the story is over.

There is no weather in malls.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.