When blame has been assigned, the story is over.

The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

There is no weather in malls.

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.