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

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

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