Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert S. Bosco's latest novel?" or "Have you read so and so's history of Peru, which is reviewed in the New York Review of Books and the New York Times and has a buzz about it?" I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm like from another planet. I'm a pygmy from the jungle.