Only time conquers time and its burdens.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative.

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.