A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.