When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.