Love makes the air light.

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.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.