Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. it must be allowed to decay.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

What better place to kill time than a library?