Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.