I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.