I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

We are formed by what we desire

The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you—just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.