You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.