I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

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

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable.

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.