Every year it's the same thing. You wait until the last minute, and you run down to the Tax Commission and drop off your returns.

We think the rule of law should govern here. If there's a dispute, then let's sit down and work it out. But to say, 'we're just going to steal it in the middle of the night,' is not right.

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing.