“Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. ”

“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.”

“Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.”

“You got to start thinking, and you've got to let go of the idea that you're something special to somebody, because none of us are, and if you don't, if you don't stop dreaming about that, you're going to end up all snap-snap-snapped to pieces.”

“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. ”