If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the heart of the matter will be conveyed nevertheless.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.