Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.