Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.