“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

“What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you?”

“May blessings fall down upon you, all your days.”

“‎All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.”

“As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment amid pieties and convention. If they must strip-mine the world to expose its hypocrisy, they will do so, even if they leave a landscape barren of hope. Then there are those writers who prefer to remythologize life on earth, finding it rich with strange congruences and possibilities. ”

“Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.”

“It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic completely out the window, then that writer has me for good. Most book surprises aren't surprising at all but follow a formula, like the dead body that's certain to lurch out of a wreck being explored by deep-sea divers in just about every book that involves wrecks and divers.”