"Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created."

"When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you don't. And you can't fake it."

"There is no place you can go and get away from yourself."

"I can't say 'I'm writing a book' unless I have a topic, a subject, a theme, and characters who are struggling with that theme."

"The future is always here. It’s always now."