Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

In loving life you love what can't survive.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.