There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.