A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?

It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.