I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.

The form is so malleable and can do so many things.

It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.