I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.

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.

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

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

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

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