I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.