“How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.”

“Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.”

“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”

“Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.”

“If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.(from the novella, Revenge)”

“Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.”

“I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.”