I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

Faith is only a word, embroidered.