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

Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.