A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society

The early worm catches the fishies and all, you know.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

All experiences exist in one time frame.

I must learn what I can to teach what I must.

They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day