Fiction Is Always Really A Labor.

Whenever I Saw Her, I Felt Like I Had Been Living In Another Country, Doing Moderately Well In Another Language, And Then She Showed Up Speaking English And Suddenly I Could Speak With All The Complexity And Nuance That I Hadn't Realized Was Gone. With Lucy I Was A Native Speaker.

Guns Are Dangerous And Damaging Even When No One Gets Shot. They Really Do Loom.

Coming Back Is The Thing That Enables You To See How All The Dots In Your Life Are Connected.

Art Stands On The Shoulders Of Craft, Which Means That To Get To The Art, You Must Master The Craft.

There Was No Time For Kissing But She Wanted Him To Know That In The Future There Would Be. A Kiss In So Much Loneliness Was Like A Hand Pulling You Up Out Of The Water, Scooping You Up From A Place Of Drowning And Into The Reckless Abundance Of Air. A Kiss, Another Kiss.