Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

Is the story developing an attitude or victimized by it.

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.