The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

I am too nervous to eat pie.

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.