Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.