The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

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.

It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

'God helps those who help themselves.' - it's a very true saying.

But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

My family is everything to me.