These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same significance to anyone else.] They represent a kind of fiction I would love to pursue more or less constantly, but dare not.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.