We invent what we love and what we fear.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.