I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people interrupt themselves in the middle of some story they're telling me to say, "You know you can't write about this."

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.