Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.