Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may not be as distinct and clear-cut as we have been taught or as our somewhat arbitrary clocks and calendars have led us to believe.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.