Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.

I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read one over the course of a summer, but that isn't what I want to write.

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.