Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.