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

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.

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

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

My life is going to change. I feel it.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.