I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen.

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

In nature forms are endlessly being destroyed and then recreated and destroyed and recreated. Nature isn't afraid to destroy forms in the process of regenerating. So why are we afraid of that in life?