Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

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.

I spend about a year between novels

I'm falling into disrepair

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')