We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

I'm a really eclectic reader.

We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

What men yearn for they often destroy.