Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.