Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.