Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

Reading is where the wild things are.

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.