(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

When all else fails, philosophize.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.