But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

I spend about a year between novels

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.