Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

Novelists never have to footnote.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

Respect and fear are two different things.