I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.

I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

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