Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.