We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.