The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.

There is much to be said for solitude.

Words matter, words have import.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.