“It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.”

“on short stories:something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.”

“The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.”

“Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. ”

“Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are. ”

“If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.”

“I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.”