I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.