I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist — a chance you just don't get every day.

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it.....The si…”

“We returned to the hotel and had intercourse. I like that word intercourse. It …”

“If you look at things from a distance, most anything looks beautiful.”

“What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing…”