I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.

We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living.

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.