Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.