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One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

Pearl suspected God didn't love human beings much. She suspected that what He loved most was Nothingness.

Have a nice remainder of the rest of your life.

Love is further than death.

That's what Alice liked about the desert, its constant relentless conflict with itself. The desert was unexpectedly beautiful and horrible at once.

The Lord was in line at the pharmacy counter waiting to get His shingles shot.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Shooting felt good. Joy consists in this, after all, the increase of one's power.

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Clouds aren't as pretty as they used to be. That's a known fact.

One writes to find words' meanings.

Every living thing suffers transfiguration. Yes, until the creation of Eve, Adam had fondled beasts.

He had dreamed, he had dreamed...it left him.

That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

I believe that God is (and must be) a transcendent presence in any worthy work of art.

She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

You should have changed if you wanted to remain yourself but you were afraid to change.

That was the problem with public art, it risked great ridicule.

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.

Words at night were feral things.

We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.

Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.