A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.

“I'm telling you stories. Trust me.”

“And I suppose the saddest thing for me, thinking about Oranges, is that I wrote…”

“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, al…”

“If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.”