I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.