How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.

It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.