Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.