“It never meant anything, Moses says. Not to the god above it and not to the earth below it. It never did. Not even when they first did it. But its the doin it that counts. Its something. You draw i...”

“Honey, she says, honest aint the half of what Im not.”

“To stop. To cease, just for a moment. To turn your back on the world, to close your eyes - to see the nothing that is not rather than the nothing that is everywhere around you. To just be quiet in ...”

“It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.”

“Honey, she says, honest ain’t the half of what I’m not.”

“Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow,...”

“Writing doesnt get any easier with time or talent. If writing is easy for you, youre probably still learning the craft. You havent perfected your style or landed upon your voice. You havent learned...”

“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”