Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

I over analyze situations because Im scared of what may happen if I'm not prepared for it.

What can I do today to take a step forward?

I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.