Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.

A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.