“I wanted to write about the complexity and hilarity in the everyday business of being human.”

“In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.”

“A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface of an ocean. What is the difference between the information carried in the words of a novel and the information carried on the waves of the sea? Listen, and the waves will speak, and someday, I tell you, you will write your thoughts on the surface of the sea.”

“Everyday is an adventure to write about-----”

“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the everyday, into situations that examine the complexities that may fascinate or puzzle us. To dwell on the mundane as some kind of a writing exeercise is useless.”

“The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.”