Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.

Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.

Uninvited criticism is insult.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.