Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

I hate reading digital books. I don't enjoy the experience. I like smelling the paper, turning the pages. I think the book as we've always known it is an efficient technology.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.