"Your waistline may be spreading but you can't blame it on the expansion of the universe."

"I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs as I spy on the short fiction sect…"

"I think it was when I got to the butterflies -- in that brief, beautiful image comprising life, death and t…"

"Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the ni…"

"I will read anything rather than work."

"My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration."

"The book is a meditation on memory, on memory and history, written in the form of a travelogue. But the jou…"