I think situations are more important than plot and character.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.