I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.