Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

I learned to love stories by listening to them.

We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.