“...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...”

“...my novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end...”

“...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful...”

“...when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...”

“...God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds...”

“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...”

“... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...”