For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

Lists are a form of power.

Good writing is always new.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss