“Writers can live everywhere. It’s our superpower.”

“The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble is that, psychologically at least, it’s hard. Our culture teaches none of its false lessons more carefully than that one should never be dependent. Hence the novice or still unsuccessful writer, who has enough trouble believing in himself, has the added burden of shame. It’s hard to be a good writer and a guilty person; a lack of self-respect creeps into one’s prose.”

“Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.”

“I am a brother to writers everywhere.”

“You have to get clear about the kind of life you can live here. Life can be lived anywhere, but not every life can be lived everywhere.”

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”