It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

I'm SO trying to give up meat.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.