Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

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

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.