“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.”

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

“Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. ”

“And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.”

“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.”

“Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.”