Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

Without rain, there would be no life.

Love makes the air light.

The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

We are most alive when we're in love.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.