Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.
Tim O'BrienIt's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.
Tim O'BrienFiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.
Tim O'Brien