I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Its not enough to just own a camera. Everyone owns a camera. To be a photographer you must understand, appreciate and harness the power you hold!

In moments when I am fully connected to my heart

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?

By the time The Iron Sheik gets to the ring, it will be Wrestlemania 37!

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

If you want to have more, you must become more.

I voted for you during your last election.

All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.