I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.