My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.