There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.

I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.