Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

I felt ridiculously self-conscious, like the stick of celery at a luxurious buffet.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

Talent is a valued tormentor.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware.