The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.