A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Within my reflection I see tears, for what I see is the truth, are my greatest fears.

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

When you’re always scheming about ways to make money, it’s like a part of you is lost.

If two people who love eachother are soul mates, then there will always be a empty hole in my soul waiting for you..

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.