That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

I would pay snakes to bite her.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.