I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.

Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.