Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.