A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.