Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.