I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow