Actually,the nightmarish thought occurred to me that with electronic delivery of books becoming a norm, soon writers may be expected to provide several versions of their book, ranging from the Easy to the Complex, and buyers will choose what they're in the mood for with the click of a button! I do hope not.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

My mother was wonderfully out about her dementia. She would sort of - she would say to me, I came out to the window cleaner about having dementia. You know, I love the way that verb for coming out of the closet has now become so socially useful for all sorts of situations, like when you need to explain to the window cleaner that you don't know if you paid him or not.

There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.