My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

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.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

Freedom is a public library.

When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.