Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.