Much of my work has been done in first person.

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.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

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

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.