I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.