When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.