Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.

Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

I never wanted to be safe... I wanted to be good.

Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.

A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them.

Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

She said, "I will go no farther." "There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness