When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.