I don't read. I don't like to read Harry Potter or anything like that. It's not my style.
One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough. ’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
There's nothing greater than a girl. . . . Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.
The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.