When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.