I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.