There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you do? Like Canute, one cannot fight the sea, you have to go with your love, and hope one day, things change.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.